If it were possible to have poor writer minicamp that speaks solely for himself and without being a writer himself he could speak to the language of writers better than any editor or publisher he would meet and he was always tactful in speaking with writers. I have to admit i pulled a fast one because its not about or at least it was not written originally about bob weil, but it was written about the man who inspired him to begin an editor and i did not realize he had been inspired to Maxwell Perkins until he said that just now, but this was from scotts biography of max perkins and i kept having it sounded like it was a description of bob. In the essential attributes of the good editor, which max burton exemplifies i see bob as well and its been one of the greatest privileges of my professional life for more than 10 years and more years to come because we have more books in the pipeline to be associated with bob and i think what hes done is elevated my writing because hes had faith in
So, again, encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is kai bird, im the new executive director of the Leon Levy Center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. And i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. This is our first sort of jointlysponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next may. And that will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. I also want to advertise and put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for our new, our annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop for aspiring biographers. So if you know of people who are aspiring, please encourage them to apply. And finally, i just, you know, im really thrilled that were able to do
Googled Muslim Statements against violence and found nothing. Guest can i use the word bs on tv . Could i use the word bs on cable . [laughter] really you muzzle shugrue gold then a council for islamic American Relations or the Muslim British Council and seven arabia and the grand ayatollah you the American Society for muslims advancement . None of those came up big your Google Search . There is something wrong with your google. Host our guest for the past three errors on booktv reza aslan. No god but god, the origins, evolution, and future of islam had 2005. Beyond fundamentalism a rigidly called how to win a cosmic war. International best seller zealot came out last year. You have been watching booktv on cspan2. Think you. I really enjoyed it. One of the problems is that when you do that, when you try to control everything either create composition and potential dissidents everywhere. If you tell all artists they have to paint the same way and one says, no, i dont want to paint that
Host reza aslan, where does the phrase no god but god come from . Guest it is the first half of the muslim profession of faith. There is no god but god and mohammed is gods messenger. It is essentially the phrase that initiates a convert into the muslim faith. Host you also write it not look that now, islam is available to all muslims and every muslim can speak for islam. And so it becomes a great shouting match. Again, i keep paralleling judaism and is on. The problem of course is theres about 15 million after jews. When you look at the conflicts in the middle east commodious muslim democrat and was some autocrats fighting against each other, muslim peacemakers and the Software Makers are doing against each other, what ewers is precisely the result of this reformation process, this individualization of islam, in the process the authority to decide if faith is being removed, seized ashes back from the hand that these institutions that have gripped it from us at the last 14 centuries an
Host reza aslan, where does the phrase no god but god me it initiates the convert cono the muslim faith. Host you also write it not look that now, islam is available to all muslims and every muslim can speak for islam. It is a religion not to have the intermediary but unlike todays them it has resulted in the creation of a class of scholars the learned once says they are known. For most of the last four centuries. Host how does that involve from mohammad to free them to interpret . That all great religions half profits that was a creator of a religion that is important for people to understand we have a perception of profit is someone who invents a new religion but a profit is someone who reforms the religion in the culture in which he lived they did not create christianitys jesus was said you preaching about it today is some. If he was the hidden duty was reforming hindu with some. The across repeatedly reminds people it is not a new religion this aid was given to all the profits but